For example, in my state PA there is an inheritance tax and many TAX auction properties originate from people passing away and the heir(s) not taking control over the estate and paying those property taxes.

I am interested in meeting people from whom I can learn more about real estate investing. 

Conventional, after two hard money people fell through How did you add value to the deal?

These are people whose full time job is to effectively manage the assets on behalf of the investors. 

Capacity and Tolerance. 1) Capacity: how many people can you comfortably fit in the property, is there room to add more, or add more value to the tenants to increase rent.2) Tolerance: How many people are you comfortable living with, if there are vacancies are you able to handle that.House hacking is an amazing path to homeownership, and a nice low barrier to entry into self managing your properties.

We are looking to make this post to start getting in contact with likeminded people in the areas of Calgary or Edmonton.To provide a little background, we purchased a half duplex 3 years ago in our hometown (Northern Ontario) at the age of 21.

I am on the other side of the bridge in Virginia - there is a good amount of DC area people here on BP

just staying totally away from politics, state laws, etc. for a second - just forget that, as that is not my point and that is not why i'm bringing it up - BLUF: Texas is building houses for people to live in, and CT isn't.

Just because other people might be getting away with it for now doesn't mean they couldn't crack down on you after you buy a property their.

People weren't renting properties as quickly, and there was an increase in vacancy.